As I always start out these posts, It's difficult to know where to start out with all of this information, So lets start with some shameless self promotion.
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So It all started with me and Azztaroth sitting around playing our nintendo switches and being our normal friendly/sarcastic banter, and thought it might be fun to do this online and make a show out of it as we already do this with our friends, just no camera. So why the hell not.
Went out and picked up a Elgato hd60 unit ( Description/ Specs there of )
With the capabilities of recording 60fps 1080p, it is more than enough to capture the 720p / 30 fps most multiplayer online games use on the nintendo switch, that and because i don't have the highest spec computer atm, so going to have to work with what i have.
That and with the program obs ( Open Broadcast Studio ) was able to get the interface easily up using my webcam and the obs capture input for the elgato. But due to a bug at the time the frame rates were terrible and unusable for streams (looked like the blair witch project but with mariokart?)
but after some tweaking of settings to almost the lowest got a basic setup. Now that the bugfix is out it has caused the capture rates to be much better, and to allow me to up my quality greatly.
Some information though that I found isn't as straight forward as you would think, with streaming it takes a lot of processing power to encode the stream and all the different formats and scenes you make for it, but using external peripherals, i.e. ( external mic and webcam ) take a lot of the processing power used for your onboard devices a lot less. In other words, a lot lower cpu usage which is what you overly want when streaming as it gives you some wiggle room.
As such reading this information I went out to get a Logitech C920hd and a Gorilla pod for it. and off our local used site a Blue Yeti mic.
With these we now have hd video and audio (it's truly sexy in comparison) and because they are able to offer the sources of audio and video in the format that OBS is looking for it uses at least 30-40% less cpu. Which will do wonders for you if you are gaming on the same system.
But as such we just run our switch to the Elgato then to the tv and with our camera in picture and the audio set to mix the elgato / Blue Yeti audio sources we were off to the races and let our friends be online!!!!!!
As such now that we are having video footage from the streams, I have been taking sections of the stream and editing them into a compilation for peoples consumption on Youtube, so feel free to check us out there as well.
Will be doing some articles in the near future about the different settings and tricks that i have been finding so far, but just thought i'd give a general overview in what i have lost myself in these days :3
Ta Ta For Now
Balloonicorn
Join me on our weekly streams on wednesday's at Helium Gaming on Twitch.
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So It all started with me and Azztaroth sitting around playing our nintendo switches and being our normal friendly/sarcastic banter, and thought it might be fun to do this online and make a show out of it as we already do this with our friends, just no camera. So why the hell not.
Went out and picked up a Elgato hd60 unit ( Description/ Specs there of )
With the capabilities of recording 60fps 1080p, it is more than enough to capture the 720p / 30 fps most multiplayer online games use on the nintendo switch, that and because i don't have the highest spec computer atm, so going to have to work with what i have.
That and with the program obs ( Open Broadcast Studio ) was able to get the interface easily up using my webcam and the obs capture input for the elgato. But due to a bug at the time the frame rates were terrible and unusable for streams (looked like the blair witch project but with mariokart?)
but after some tweaking of settings to almost the lowest got a basic setup. Now that the bugfix is out it has caused the capture rates to be much better, and to allow me to up my quality greatly.
Some information though that I found isn't as straight forward as you would think, with streaming it takes a lot of processing power to encode the stream and all the different formats and scenes you make for it, but using external peripherals, i.e. ( external mic and webcam ) take a lot of the processing power used for your onboard devices a lot less. In other words, a lot lower cpu usage which is what you overly want when streaming as it gives you some wiggle room.
As such reading this information I went out to get a Logitech C920hd and a Gorilla pod for it. and off our local used site a Blue Yeti mic.
With these we now have hd video and audio (it's truly sexy in comparison) and because they are able to offer the sources of audio and video in the format that OBS is looking for it uses at least 30-40% less cpu. Which will do wonders for you if you are gaming on the same system.
But as such we just run our switch to the Elgato then to the tv and with our camera in picture and the audio set to mix the elgato / Blue Yeti audio sources we were off to the races and let our friends be online!!!!!!
As such now that we are having video footage from the streams, I have been taking sections of the stream and editing them into a compilation for peoples consumption on Youtube, so feel free to check us out there as well.
Will be doing some articles in the near future about the different settings and tricks that i have been finding so far, but just thought i'd give a general overview in what i have lost myself in these days :3
Ta Ta For Now
Balloonicorn
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